The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard has documented the entry into Spain of 300,000 euros from Venezuelan oil operations that businessman Víctor de Aldama links to the illegal financing of the PSOE.
The Judicial Police have managed to identify in the accounts seized from the businessman the operation by which Francisco Flores, trusted financier of the Chavista brothers Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez, transferred the funds to him through his instrumental company Apamate Corporate and Trust, S.L., on January 3, 2020. Just a couple of weeks later, the current president in charge of Venezuela landed in Spain, invited precisely by Aldama himself and José Luis Ábalos.
This transaction, as EL MUNDO has been able to confirm, was recorded on that date in the accounting entries of the company Deluxe Fortune of Aldama, which received the money through a bank account opened at the Banco de Caminos. To camouflage this payment, a fictitious contract was articulated between the companies Apamate and Deluxe Fortune dated December 19, 2019. This agreement simulated the purchase of at least three Aldama companies that never took place, and which established a total amount of about 15 million euros.
This and other operations are currently being investigated, secretly, by the Investigative Court number 2 of the National Court within the framework of the investigation into the alleged irregular financing of the PSOE.
As a result of the testimonies given by Aldama in recent months (in which he maintains that he delivered most of those funds in cash to the former Minister of Transportation Ábalos, at his residence in El Viso, after making several withdrawals of money of a smaller amount that did not raise suspicions), both the UCO and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office are tracking whether, indeed, irregular entries were recorded in the accounts of the political party.
For this reason, the donations and expenses made by the PSOE in recent years are also being analyzed, with the aim of determining whether there was a smurfing operation consisting of injecting into the party's coffers funds from construction companies that took rigged public contracts from the Ministry of Transport directed by Ábalos.
After comparing the information provided by the Court of Accounts with that of the PSOE itself led by Pedro Sánchez, relevant discrepancies have been found, the disappearance of expense invoices in the archives of the political party, or the presence of receipts with concepts that the researchers consider, literally, "unintelligible."
The funds, from oil, went through the Bank of Roads
With respect to the first operation, the UCO has already certified that Apamate, through two Flores fiduciaries, also Venezuelans Carlos Alberto Parra and Óscar Cunto Andre, ordered the aforementioned transfer of 300,000 euros that reflected the following concept: "Op. Target 2 Subscription."
This company, which also made payments to the corporate structure of the former President of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, had been established very shortly before, on August 8, 2019, establishing as its corporate purpose "the provision of all types of services and advice to companies or natural persons, accounting, tax or legal entities."
As sources close to the secret investigation of the National Court tell this newspaper, the transaction between Flores and Aldama was forged through WhatsApp communications in which it was agreed to create a series of fictitious operations to camouflage the transfer of funds from the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA.
This operation was previously negotiated personally by Aldama with the current president in charge of the country by design of Donald Trump.
Aldama assures that he took them out and gave them to Ábalos in his house in Viso
In these operations, in addition to Delcy Rodríguez, as the judicial investigations have been able to verify, the then head of Commerce and Supply of the main Venezuelan public emporium, Marcos Rojas, intervened, with whom a first transfer of five million dollars was agreed upon to Apamate, which received the money in Russia to avoid the international sanctions imposed on the Maduro Regime.
From this millionaire amount, Flores made the aforementioned shipment of 300,000 euros.
Months after the transfer to Aldama, Francisco Flores articulated another strange payment, but this time to the company Comunicación Relevante, controlled by Zapatero and his partner Julio Martínez Martínez.
The amount amounted to 120,000 euros and the concept read as follows: "Delivery of a monthly report on the relevant keys to the political, economic and social situation in the world."
Flores maintained a close relationship with Zapatero, who managed medical consultations for him in Spain.
